Transformed reflexive verbal frames in Slovak and their French equivalents with on Cover Image

Les structures transformées réfléchies en slovaque et leurs équivalents français avec le pronom on
Transformed reflexive verbal frames in Slovak and their French equivalents with on

Author(s): Katarína Chovancová, Lucia Ráčková
Subject(s): Language studies, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Lingvokulturologické a prekladateľsko-tlmočnícke centrum excelentnosti pri Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej university v Prešove (LPTCE)
Keywords: valency; reflexivity; personal pronoun;

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the first actant of the verb, also called “l’actant de gauche” in French. Presumably less explored in comparative linguistics than actants on the right, it becomes a legitimate object of study, conceived as a follow-up of previous research on verbal valency in French and in Slovak. The study of the first actant is based on the LeMonde 0.3 corpus for the French and Sme2011 corpus for the Slovak. The authors look at utterances containing transformed reflexive verbal frames in Slovak and their French functional equivalents containing the personal pronoun on. The degree of equivalence between Slovak and French utterances is questioned. The authors point out at similarities between the two languages in spite of their different genetical features.

  • Issue Year: 11/2020
  • Issue No: 43-44
  • Page Range: 56-64
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French